They eat
beans mostly, this old yellow pair,
Dinner is
a casual affair.
Plain chipware on a plain and creaking wood,
Tin
flatware.
Two who are
Mostly Good.
Two who have lived their day,
But keep on putting on their clothes
And putting things away.
And
remembering...
Remembering, with twinklings and twinges,
As they lean over the beans in their
rented back room
that is full of beads and receipts and dolls and
cloths, tobacco crumbs, vases and fringes.
Gwendolyn Brooks